Forwarded from Pantopia Reading Nook 📰🚩
"Old-fashioned socialism, it turns out, is the “good old thing” best suited for combating the “bad new things” of modern capitalism. Corbyn and Sanders upended their respective parties precisely by holding on to socialism even when it was desperately unfashionable to do so. They were able to do so because they understood, as the Italian novelist Giuseppe Lampedusa put it, “Because things are the way they are, they cannot stay the way they are.”"
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/third-way-democratic-socialism-tony-blair-bill-clinton-uk/
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/third-way-democratic-socialism-tony-blair-bill-clinton-uk/
Jacobinmag
The Third Way Is the Past. Socialism Is the Future.
For years, Third Way politicians claimed to be modernizing progressive politics by rejecting leftist policies. But their political project now stands in ruins — and it’s democratic socialism that is on the rise.
Forwarded from Pantopia Reading Nook 📰🚩
"Coca Cola killed trade unionists in Latin America. General Motors built vehicles known to catch fire in collisions. Tobacco companies hid the cancer-causing properties of their products for decades. The catalog of the ethical and moral crimes of corporations is impressive."
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/corporations-profit-values-murder-culture-boeing/
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/corporations-profit-values-murder-culture-boeing/
Jacobinmag
Corporations Would Literally Kill You to Turn a Profit
Coca-Cola killed trade unionists in Latin America. General Motors built vehicles known to catch fire. Tobacco companies suppressed cancer research. And Boeing knew that its planes were dangerous. Corporations don't care if they kill people — as long as it's…